Can someone make for me a picture of that scared dude pissing on a Tesla logo, thnx.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
this book sounds p bad
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 11:22 (one year ago) link
Oh so you're the guy
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
literally nothing about it sounds good and the cover is not helping!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
I'm definitely curious about the book, but I'm also reminded of what he said in The Calvin & Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book: "Graphic novels are incredibly stupid."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
What about it sounds bad? I mean from the description it could also be good.
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
Separately I have a really really distinct memory as a kid of the very first Calvin and Hobbes strip in the newspaper. I would read the comic section every morning religiously, and even as a 10-year-old or maybe even especially as a 10-year-old I recognized immediately that this was a cut above everything else. That and peanuts were my top two for life from then on.
― omar little, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
bloom county and far side to complete the late 80s set imo
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
I’ve got the same collection of C&H books I started acquiring with babysitting money as a child and BW is one of those guys where despite my love for C&H I’m just not interested in the new material. I thought about why and I think it’s partly the fear that he turns out to be personally dodgy in a way that ruins his work for me (cf Morrissey) and also, it just doesn’t seem intrinsically that interesting compared to the stuff I know him for.
― better than whoever you are (gyac), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Pulled a few boxes of books out of the basement last week and realized I had the first 3 big C&H anthologies down there. When I unpack the boxes again I'm gonna dive into those for sure.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
loved those treasuries back in the day, even though i also had most of the 'regular' books.... having the color Sundays and the bonus stories was great. iirc, Watterson sort of rolls his eyes at those publications in the must-own Tenth Anniversary book, pointing out that he named them The Essential, The Indispensable, and The Authoritative "since the books were obviously none of these things."
i'm periodically tempted by the idea of owning The Complete paperback set. somehow though it feels like something would be lost not having things grouped under "Yukon Ho!" and "Scientific Progress Goes Boink."
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
― omar little, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:10 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I remember that, too! I was immediately struck by the design of the characters -- Calvin's Pac-Man mouth, mainly -- and how clever it was right out of the gate. I mean, the first week or so of C&H was exponentially more funny and creative than the previous 10-15 years of Beetle Bailey or Garfield or whatever combined. It felt like risks were being taken, and apart from Bloom County and The Far Side (as Tracer Hand pointed out), few other (if any) late '80s strips had that spirit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
The only strips that come even close to C&H are Peanuts and Pogo.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
the artwork and lettering on pogo probably better than those two; C&H owes a big debt to walt kelly for those heavily inked stumps and trees and crags he was so fond ofpogo really so amazing. not sure any other comic has a book of sheet music?
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
There are few things in this world I enjoy as much as the small moments in Calvin and Hobbes when Calvin’s parents do something that make it clear that Calvin got his entire personality from them (even the parts that drive them crazy) https://t.co/CPzcXPN69T pic.twitter.com/GBEACE1eOO— Billie Takespeare (@maynardgang) December 16, 2023
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:16 (four months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GBeIDqtXwAAf_3u?format=jpg&name=mediumIn case strip doesn’t show in preview
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 23:17 (four months ago) link
Calvin’s parents the undeniable heroes of C&H. The strips with Calvin’s dad having a nightmare of a family holiday just ruin me
https://i.postimg.cc/X7GbyvQb/IMG-4358.jpg
― H.P, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 00:39 (four months ago) link
Same
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 00:40 (four months ago) link
It’s amazing how invested the strip gets you